The pen is mightier than the word: Object priming of evaluative standards

Music science typically and naturally focuses on experts' perceptual, cognitive, and aesthetic responses to music. Novices receive far less empirical and theoretical attention. This asymmetry could eventually constrain or limit the discipline. To illustrate this point, existing data are used to compare the performance of experts and novices in a variety of music paradigms. Experts are sensitive to music's tonal materials (e.g., octaves, intervals) and their listening preferences and evaluative standards reflect this sensitivity. In contrast, novices are often less sensitive to music's tonal materials, and their listening preferences and evaluative standards reflect this insensitivity. A music science that included novices more fully would be more comprehensive and better prepared to address basic questions about music's evolution and its universal structure.

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Evidence for Complete Translational and Reflectional Invariance in Visual Object Priming

Perception ◽

10.1068/p200585 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 20 (5) ◽

pp. 585-593 ◽

Cited By ~ 199

Author(s):

Irving Biederman ◽

Eric E Cooper

Keyword(s):

Visual Object ◽

Object Priming

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Public reason, non-public reasons, and the accessibility requirement

Canadian Journal of Philosophy ◽

10.1080/00455091.2019.1584935 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 49 (8) ◽

pp. 1062-1082

Author(s):

Jason Tyndal

Keyword(s):

Public Reason ◽

Good Reason ◽

Consensus Model ◽

The Public ◽

Evaluative Standards

AbstractIn Liberalism without Perfection, Jonathan Quong develops what is perhaps the most comprehensive defense of the consensus model of public reason – a model which incorporates both a public-reasons-only requirement and an accessibility requirement framed in terms of shared evaluative standards. While the consensus model arguably predominates amongst public reason liberals, it is criticized by convergence theorists who reject both the public-reasons-only requirement and the accessibility requirement. In this paper, I argue that while we have good reason to reject Quong’s call for a public-reasons-only requirement, all public reason liberals should endorse at least some shared evaluative standards and, hence, an accessibility requirement.

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Age-Related Correlates of Self-Derogation: Report of Childhood Experiences6

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.117.540.533 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 117 (540) ◽

pp. 533-534 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Howard B. Kaplan ◽

Alex D. Pokorny

Keyword(s):

Generational Differences ◽

Social Role ◽

Interaction Effects ◽

Childhood Experiences ◽

Age Related ◽

Retrospective Reports ◽

Evaluative Standards

Problem The following is a report of the differential relationships observed between retrospective reports of eight childhood experiences and self-derogation (SD) scores for adult subjects in five age groupings. Variability in the relationships between particular experiences and SD among the different age-groupings was to be expected for any of several reasons: social role-related variability in the evaluative significance of particular attributes (Kaplan, 1970); generational differences in evaluative standards; variability in interaction effects between earlier experiences and later circumstances associated with particular ages; etc.

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Investigating the Relation between Imagery and Perception: Evidence from Face Priming

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A ◽

10.1080/027249897392099 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

pp. 274-289 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Roberto Cabeza ◽

A. Mike Burton ◽

Stephen W. Kelly ◽

Akamatsu Shigeru

Keyword(s):

Face Recognition ◽

Normal Subjects ◽

Naming Task ◽

Line Drawings ◽

Perceptual Test ◽

Object Priming

The relation between imagery and perception was investigated in face priming. Two experiments are reported in which subjects either saw or imagined the faces of celebrities. They were later given a speeded perceptual test (familiarity judgement to pictures of celebrities) or a speeded imagery test (in which they were told the names of celebrities and asked to make a decision about their appearance). Seeing faces primed the perceptual test, and imaging faces primed the imagery test; however, there was no priming between seeing and imaging faces. These results show that perception and imagery can be dissociated in normal subjects. In two further experiments, we examined the effects of imaging faces on a subsequent face-naming task and on a task requiring familiarity judgements to partial faces. Both these tasks were facilitated by prior imaging of faces. These results are discussed in relation to those of McDermott & Roediger (1994), who found that imagery promoted object priming in a perceptual test involving naming partial line drawings. The implications for models of face recognition are also discussed.

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